Laurence St-Germain (born 30 May 1994) is a Canadian World Cup alpine ski racer who specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom. She made her World Cup debut in November 2015, and is the 2023 world champion in slalom.
Career From Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, Quebec, St-Germain competed for Canada at the Junior World Championships in 2013; she was 25th in the slalom but failed to finish the second run of the giant slalom on home snow at Mont-Sainte-Anne. She made her World Cup debut in November 2015 in slalom at Aspen, and was 27th. She scored her first World Cup points in November 2017 at Levi with a 17th-place finish in the slalom.
St-Germain made her Olympic debut in 2018, and was 15th in the slalom. At her first World Championships in 2019, she was sixth in the slalom.
St-Germain raced collegiately in the United States for the Catamounts of the University of Vermont, just over the border in Burlington; she was a three-time All-American and the national runner-up in the slalom in 2016.
In January 2022, St-Germain was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.
At the 2023 World Championships in Méribel, St-Germain won the gold medal in the slalom. She was the first Canadian woman in 63 years to win an alpine skiing slalom world championship.
World Cup results Season standings SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiantslalomDownhillCombinedParallel 2018 23 90 33 — — — — rowspan="2" 2019 24 42 13 — — — — 2020 25 48 18 — — — — 11 2021 26 30 8 — — — rowspan=9 — 2022 27 52 15 — — — — 2023 28 50 16 — — — rowspan=9 2024 29 68 26 — — — 2025 30 52 18 — — — 2026 31 63 22 — — —
Top-ten finishes 0 podiums; 17 top tens Season Date Location Discipline Place201929 December 2018 Semmering, Austria Slalom 10th19 February 2019 Stockholm, Sweden Parallel slalom 6th202015 December 2019 St. Moritz, Switzerland Parallel slalom 5th29 December 2019 Lienz, Austria Slalom 9th14 January 2020 Flachau, Austria Slalom 10th202121 November 2020 Levi, Finland Slalom 6th22 November 2020 Slalom 8th12 January 2021 Flachau, Austria Slalom 8th6 March 2021 Jasná, Slovakia Slalom 10th202229 December 2021 Lienz, Austria Slalom 9th11 January 2022 Schladming, Austria Slalom 8th202320 November 2022 Levi, Finland Slalom 9th29 January 2023 Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic Slalom 7th11 March 2023 Åre, Sweden Slalom 5th202412 November 2023 Levi, Finland Slalom 7th202516 November 2024 Slalom 10th1 December 2024 Killington, United States Slalom 7th
World Championship results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedTeamcombinedTeam event 2019 24 6 — — — — rowspan="3" — 2021 26 17 — — — — — 2023 28 1 — — — — — 2025 30 DNF1 — — — — 19
Olympic results YearAgeSlalomGiantslalomSuper-GDownhillCombinedTeamcombined 2018 23 15 — — — — rowspan=2 2022 27 17 — — — — 2026 31 12 — — — 13
References
External links
Laurence St-Germain at Alpine Canada (archive) Laurence St-Germain at University of Vermont Athletics Laurence St-Germain at Milano Cortina 2026